coyʉ

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Cubeo[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

coyʉ

  1. to enter (a house, a trap, a hole, a river).
    Moa obedivʉ corãma cobobʉi ñamine.
    During the night many fish evidently entered the trap.
  2. to sink.
  3. to drown.
    Duicacacʉ corĩ bíjabiya ẽnoare.
    They say a man down the river drowned yesterday.

References[edit]

  • N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "coyʉ", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo, →ISBN
  • N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN